all images © Gallery Escape

Drawings From 1960 - 2000 by Sir Peter Cook 

August 22nd - September 22nd, 2015

 Galleryespace Pvt Ltd

16 Community Centre,New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110025 

Gallery Espace in New Delhi and design studio Architecture Discipline presented Sir Peter Cook's 34 watercolours on building hierarchies with a new exhibition at Gallery Espace. The gallery's decision on Sir Cook's drawings is very brave and takes the debate on built spaces forward. The London-based architect and professor Peter Cook is one of the prominent examples to present avant-garde architecture to the world with mixing architecture, technology, nature and society in pop-art colours and the most important feature of this exhibition is that Cook’s artworks  is now being exhibited for the first time in India. 

Sir Peter Cook at the gallery space

“I want to make it uncomfortable — for the philistine, for the boring architect, for the person who wants his building to be predictable,” says Cook, 78, who was knighted in 2007 by Queen Elizabeth II for his services in architecture mentioned in reports. “When I was introduced to Archigram’s work in the ’80s, it felt like I was reading George Orwell’s 1984. Their work was a discourse on multiple streams, including art, theatre, even journalism. With Peter you don’t talk only about architecture. He brings to the table a dialogue that isn’t about an ‘ism’ and that’s when architecture begins to talk to the outside,” says Akshat Bhatt, principal, at Architecture Discipline studio. 

Sir Peter Cook, Dampstead, Watercolour on paper | 34.8 x 20.8 inches | 1993 

“It is convenient for mainstream to dismiss certain architects as artists or as academics. But what happens when the dreamers start building, when they build on time and on budget? For us, me, Rem Koohlaas or Zaha Hadid (Koohlaas’s student), it is important, and it is the same business. We have to build toilets and houses, and we are interested in keeping the water out. But the conversations are more elaborate. It’s about extending the vocabulary of architecture,” says Cook.

Sir Peter Cook, Arcadia: Mesh Marsh and Trickling Tower, Colour pencil, mounted on board, 23.5 x 38.5 inches, 1978

Sir Peter Cook, Lantern Tower(s) for Oslo, Watercolour, airbrush & colour pencil on paper, 32.8 x 14 inches,1984

Sir Peter Cook, Real City: Westhavn, Elevation: Western & Eastern Part, Watercolour on paper, 17.8 x 71 inches, 1986

Sir Peter Cook, Skywaft City-Composit B 3-Waft E-F Face, Watercolour, airbrush & colour pencil on paper, 19.2 x 19.2 inches ,1985 

Sir Peter Cook, Way Out West Berlin-Detail Section at K at Stage D, Watercolour on paper, 20.2 x 19.6 inches, 1988

Sir Peter Cook, Brisbane Expo, Watercolour on paper, 22.4 x 27.8 inches, 1983

Please see more artworks of Peter Cook in the website below

> via galleryespace.com